Show #7847 2018-10-23 (taped 2018-08-21) Regular

Contestants

Patrick Healy — a social studies teacher from Bronxville, New York

Traci Clark — a pharmacist from Pembroke Pines, Florida

Erik Agard — a puzzlemaker from Gaithersburg, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Erik $1,400 $4,800 $19,600 $26,801
3-day champion: $66,802
$15,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Traci $1,400 $1,400 $13,400 $26,800
2nd place: $2,000
$14,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Patrick $1,400 $2,600 $5,000 $8,500
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
13 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY OPENINGS EN FRANÇAIS STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA WEIGHTS & MEASURES THE "HEART" OF COUNTRY I GO TO FAMOUS PERSON HIGH SCHOOL
$200 [11]
Steinbeck:"To the red country & part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently..."
The Grapes of Wrath
Erik
$200 [2]
Chapeau--do let it go to your head
a hat
Patrick
$200 [21]
(Hi, I'm Sarah French from NBC Charlotte.) 1996's "Indomitable Spirit" project featured statues of 6 22'-long panthers outside Bank of America Stadium in North Carolina, home to this NFL team
the Carolina Panthers
Patrick
$200 [16]
In a British brewery, a firkin equals 1/4 of this other container
a barrel
Traci Patrick
$200 [1]
Billy Joe Shaver declares this "is where I was born... the Lone Star State's where I'm comin' from"
the heart of Texas
Traci Patrick
$600 [26]
Kensington, Md. kids! No pressure living up to this scientist who had an annus mirabilis ("year of marvels") in 1905
Albert Einstein
$400 [12]
Just beat it:"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up"
On the Road
Patrick
$400 [3]
Maison rules--first, know what maison means
a house
Patrick
$400 [22]
(Hi, I'm Liz Cho from ABC7.) Ulysses S. Grant was interredherein his New York City tomb in 1897; years later, Groucho Marx made a famous running gag out of this question
Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
Erik Patrick
$400 [17]
A township is composed of 36 sections, which are each 640 of these units of measure
acres
Erik
$400 [7]
In a 1992 title Billy Ray Cyrus had one
an achy breaky heart
Erik
$800 [27]
Los Angeles St. in the city of angels boasts a school named for this woman, one of Mexico's most notable painters
(Frida) Kahlo
Patrick
$600 [13]
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife"
Pride and Prejudice
Patrick
$600 [4]
Huit will do a number on you
eight
Erik
$600 [23]
(Hi, I'm Rob Fukuzaki from ABC7.) At the first major football game played in this stadium, USC rose up & bowled over Penn State 14-3
the Rose Bowl
Traci
$600 [18]
Equal to 128 cubic feet, a cord is a large cut pile of this
wood
Erik
$600 [8]
Take heed before you fool around: Hank Williams warned that this title thing "will make you weep"
your cheating heart
Erik Traci
$800 [14]
Pin your hopes on Dickens:"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip..."
Great Expectations
Traci
$800 [5]
Time for a body check:pied
foot
Traci
$800 [24]
(I'm Jennifer Gilbert from Fox45.) The horse racing bet where you pick the winners of the first six races is called this
a Pick Six
Erik
$800 [19]
Named for a Nobel Prize winner, a morgan is a measure of distance between these on a chromosome
genes
Traci
$800 [9]
In a 2013 smash a distraught Miranda Lambert said the cause of her suffering "ain't my mama's" this
broken heart
Erik
DD $3,000 [15]
The first in a series:"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy"
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Traci
$1,000 [6]
From the animal kingdom:cheval
horse
Traci
$1,000 [25]
(I'm Melissa Magee from 6ABC.) Besides using her sewing skills to make a living, Betsy Ross also mademusket cartridgesfor this army formed by the Continental Congress in 1775
the Continental Army
Erik
$1,000 [20]
Fabric comes in this 4-letter unit, which can range anywhere from 10 to 100 yards
a bolt
Erik
$1,000 [10]
Juice Newton almost led the pack "playing with" this lady in a 1981 hit
the Queen of Hearts
Traci

Double Jeopardy! Round

ZEBULON PIKE'S PIQUES PRISON MATH VOCAB THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY I'M BESIDE MYSELF! CONTRONYMS
$400 [24]
On Thanksgiving 1806, Pike & his men failed to climb the peak that now bears his name in this state
Colorado
Patrick
$400 [1]
Suge Knight went to prison but not to this area that's the name of his record label
Death Row
Erik
$400 [19]
It's the side of a right triangle that's opposite the right angle
the hypotenuse
Traci
$400 [8]
The Gandhi Sagar Dam
India
Traci
$800 [18]
Sarah Paulson harmonizes with herself as singing conjoined twins on this series: "Freak Show"
American Horror Story
Erik
$800 [14]
Do this to a field & you are adding; do this to a watermelon & you are removing
seed
Erik
$800 [28]
Pike thought he bought land for the U.S. near the Twin Cities of this state in 1805, but the Sioux seemed to disagree
Minnesota
Patrick
$800 [6]
As of 2018 only 40 prisoners of a total of 780 detainees remained at this Cuban site
Guantánamo
Traci
$800 [3]
(Iain Armitage from Young Sheldonpresents the clue.) All positive integers are either composite, with factors other than themselves & 1, or they're this kind, the rock star of numbers
prime numbers
Patrick
$800 [9]
Durango & Zacatecas
Mexico
Traci Patrick
$1,200 [15]
In "The Last Action Hero", this actor tells himself "you've brought me nothing but pain"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
$1,200 [11]
Getting this 8-letter notice from the army is great for a soldier; a traffic one will be costlier
a citation
Erik
$1,200 [27]
Zeb would have been dismayed to find out the source of this is not Lake Leech as he declared, but Lake Itasca
the Mississippi River
Traci
$1,200 [7]
In 2011 a Birmingham, England prison made news by losing these; happens to us all as we get older
the keys
Patrick
$1,200 [2]
a + b = b + a is this principle of addition
commutative
Erik Traci Patrick
$1,200 [10]
The city of Lodz
Poland
Erik
$1,600 [16]
He was tough as Bane, but this actor slaps himself around as Ron & Reggie Kray in "Legend"
(Tom) Hardy
Erik
$1,600 [12]
The site seenhereis this type of vast view; as a verb, the word can mean to fail to see something
an overlook
Erik
$1,600 [26]
Pike didn't like the frigid, stormy crossing of this Great Lake to attack what's now Toronto in the War of 1812
Lake Ontario
Traci
$2,000 [22]
Prison lit like the 2018 bestseller "The Mars Room" teaches us this 6-letter word for your prison roommate
cellie
Traci
$1,600 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a circle on the monitor.) The part of a circle's circumference that lies between two endpoints is called this, from Latin for "bow"
an arc
Erik Patrick
$1,600 [21]
Alice Springs & the Simpson Desert
Australia
Patrick
$2,000 [17]
Michael Fassbender played both sides of an android kiss as Walter & David in this sequel "Covenant"
Alien: Covenant
Erik
DD $6,000 [13]
From the Latin for "blood", this word can mean either "cheerful" or "bloodthirsty"
sanguine
Erik
$2,000 [25]
Pike was vexed to find out commanding gen. Wilkinson was a spy for this Eur. kingdom & Pike was suspected, too
Spain
Patrick
DD $4,000 [23]
In 1784 the Marquis de Sade was transferred to this prison that gained fame of its own 5 years later
the Bastille
Traci
$2,000 [5]
As a verb, it means to slant or depict unfairly; in math it refers to 2 lines that do not intersect & are not parallel
skew
Erik
$2,000 [20]
Lough Ree & Castle Durrow
Ireland
Traci

Final Jeopardy!

OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE

This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes"

Grendel

Patrick "Who is Grendal?" — wagered $3,500
Traci "Who is Grendel?" — wagered $13,400
Erik "Who isBGrendel?" — wagered $7,201

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